Age to start learning

Lori was the first one was in our family to unicycle. She
was 9 when she started. It only took about 4 hours for her
to learn. The second, Steven, was 5. We started to teach him
earlier than that because he had been around unicyclists
most of his life. He finally got it when he was
5. They are now 21 and 12 and it's me who rides the
most lately.

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todd1814 said:

How old, or should I say how young, were your kids when you
taught them to ride?

My daughters were 9 and 11 when they learned riding. The
youngest person known to have been riding a unicycle was 18
months old. You may also want to take a look at
<www.xs4all.nl/~klaasbil/agelearn_short.htm>.

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chirokid said:

* James, my oldest two were already bike riders. My
youngest, 5 years old, was not riding a bike.

Out of my selfishness, I decided to not teach her to bike
ride until she learned to unicycle ride. I feel sort of
mean about that, but she practices her unicycles several
times per/week.

I wanted her to be able to say, "I could ride a unicycle
before I learned to ride a bike!" Am I a bad Father for
that? --chirokid-- *

Would appear your not the only "bad father" ...

Our weekly (juggling) meeting a couple nites ago had two
young riders who'd never been there before. An 11yo brother
and 8yo sister. Though I don't think she could freemount,
the 8yo was zipping all over the place on a uni - and she
cannot yet ride a bike. Here mom explained that she has
trouble controlling the steering of the front wheel.

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I bought our son a 16" for his 7th birthday last June, as
he seemed to be having trouble learning on my (heavily
chopped!) 20". He was freemounting and riding well enough
to go out for 1 mile or so rides within 2 weeks. We've
done a lot of muni together, no serious drops, but lots of
technical singletrack and steep, loose descents. Last
Tuesday we did a 6.5 mile trail ride in just under 2
hours, mostly singletrack. I felt a bit of a 'bad dad' as
I was on my 26 x 3 (Duro) with 150's while Obe was on a 16
x 2.25 with 89's. He slept well that night! I'm playing
with the idea of making up a shortie superlight 24" muni
for him, copying the 'short persons coker frame' on
unicycle.uk.com. By my maths he would just be able to
reach the pedals on 127 cranks. The only concern I have is
that as he can keep up fairly well on his 16", on a 24"
He'll be leaving me for dead.

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My little one started to learn shortly after his 3rd
birthday. It wasn't his only Xmas present, honest! He found
this a little early in life to comprehend what-the-hell was
going on. Now the Winter is over with, we can find the time
to practice more. He's now 4 1/2 and I'm convinced he'll be
riding unaided by his 5th birthday.

Steve

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